I'm sure that Jim (Wettcoast) can affirm or deny his wife's ability to tell an occupied seat from an empty one, but there are enough posts on here to substantiate sailings where the boats are close to full, despite your 'contact' laughing and shaking his head at the notion.
with all due respect, and again, apoligies towards mrs. wettcoast, all i was trying to illustrate was that two perfectly resonable ppl can very easily have different opinions on something anecdotal.
to finish
pt ii of my research... (and very poignantly brought up by
paulvanb in one of the next posts actually, re: canuck games)
near the end of the season, the canucks played colorado. i was on the skytrain and two girls in their orange uniforms had just gotten off from their shift at the terminal. i proceeded to ask them a few questions about how things were going. one was very happy to talk, the other probably felt i was too snoopy.
heres what they said:
- have never sold out a sailing
- but have had to cut off sales quite often
- closest they recall is ~75%
- those were for those late nite concert specials last summer
- they forget, but they listed off beyonce and ed sheeran
- i asked how come the departure is so close to the end of an event
- they said thats one of the main reasons why some ppl get left behind
(so i assume they might consider delaying departutes to accommodate dilliants?)
- that night of the game vs colorado (a weeknight), they said they were really busy.
- i asked how many and they wernt willing or able to give me a figure
- so i asked: "more than half?"
- one girl said, "oh for sure"
- but the other one, thought about it longer and said "yeah, quite possibly"
- so again, within this small sample, ">50%" means different things to two different ppl
there seems to be a lot more sportsfans/ concert goers from nanaimo vs those from victoria. my own opinion of course, but then somebody pointed out to me awhile ago:
- nanaimo is a huge hotbed for sportsfans
- the average there is a whole lot younger than those living in victoria
- victoria has family demographics of all sorts
- nanaimo demographics are dominated by young families.
conclusion: their appetite for attending canuck, whitecaps, lions, concerts is bigger (per capita) than those coming from victoria?
the point in all of this is that maybe hullo is onto something. did they knowingly have research suporting this before launch, or were they simply better able to react and capitalise once an opportunity presented itself?
in between the long break, i now have
pt iii to present if u guys arent tired of this yet